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Cignetti Interview

Interesting Excerpt:

You've got a pretty healthy quarterback competition going on. What did you tell those two going in about how the competition would be handled and what you needed to see from the guy who was going to win the job?

FC: First off, it was a great spring for me and the quarterbacks. Nate [Longshore] only practiced the first week [until he injured a pectoral muscle] but I was very impressed with not only his performance but his leadership, his command of the offense and his command of the huddle. Kevin Riley, I was also impressed with. He went through the whole spring and did a very good job in his decision-making. He completes the football and can make things happen with his feet. Both Nate and Kevin know it's a healthy situation; it's a competitive situation. What I communicated to them, as I have to any of the quarterbacks I've had in the past when there's a competition, is the starting quarterback, it comes down to, one, who can lead the team, who can command the huddle, who can make the best decisions. And then who can complete the football and minimize turnovers.

At the end of spring, did you have one ahead of the other?

FC: Absolutely not. Nate had such a good first week of practice that there was no doubt in my mind that, after we were told he'd miss the rest of spring, that he'd at least be part of a competition, if not the starter.

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For the record, I was the one who edited in that interesting excerpt. So, if you think it is a highly UNINTERESTING excerpt, blame me, not BeastMode, who thankfully brought us this enjoyable Q+A with a new Golden Bear coach.

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by TwistNHook on Jul 15, 2008 3:39 PM PDT reply reply   0 recs

Is this a good spot for this sort of link or is it better in the DBD? Seriously Twist, I’m pretty stupid and pretty confused.

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by BeastMode on Jul 15, 2008 4:05 PM PDT reply reply   0 recs

I think it is fine. Do not worry. Maybe we should try to draft like a page or something to sort of explain these things. We are new to all this, too.

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by TwistNHook on Jul 15, 2008 4:08 PM PDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

we should definitely draft something

hopefully, we get all the kinks out of this SBN platform before football season starts…

and for the record, fanshots is a great place for this sort of thing.

So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!

by ragnarok on Jul 15, 2008 4:13 PM PDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

I think you missed this part

If a rodent of unusual size were to gnaw off Nate’s left leg, how would that affect the competition?

Well, as you know, Nate doesn’t use his mobility quite as much as his decision making and mad Wii skilz. We’d look at how he hopped around on the one leg and evaluate things day to day. He’d probably be working mostly out of the shotgun and we might not run the zone read as much. But we’d still want to see how things look in August before we made any hard decisions. Both players could see some game time.

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by Olsonist on Jul 15, 2008 4:46 PM PDT reply reply   0 recs

Oh yeah, hmm, I see I did miss that. Thanks for bring that to my attention.

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